WHO: Grey-box is social innovation startup that is working on providing free wifi access to educational content in areas where internet and electricity access is problematic.

WHY: 50% of the world lives offline – they haven’t connected to the internet in the last 3 months. In Africa, the average cost for 1GB of data is 7% of the average monthly salary. Even in North America, 50% of rural Canada does not have access to the minimum speed for internet. We believe that this is a solvable problem.

HOW: In a nutshell, the current project (codenamed: Web Crawler) takes the shape of a web browser extension (chrome and chromium) that allows scraping individual webpages or even a whole domain (ex: 5 pages deep). The result is a cloned website that can be accessed by remote communities without reliable access to the internet.

The responsibilities include tasks such as:

• Active participation in the design of functionalities for the current prototype application.
• Literature review of existing solutions
• Develop a prototype
• Test Prototype over a variety of sites
• Refactoring of existing code.
• Maintaining code and documenting incremental progress.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues to ensure the stability and reliability of the application.

Professional attributes

• Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing (with clients and colleagues)
• Proactive and honest (#nobullshit)
• Fond of self-learning, i.e. you are not afraid to use Stack Overflow

Weekly meetings with scrum and project owner

Concrete experience in social innovation projects

Access to our documentation and to our previous project reports